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Chapter 729: Withdrawal from the League

The report sent by the assistant to Chen Yiyang pointed out.The entire league is completely rotten, moreover, in a disgraceful manner.

Throughout this year, all international matches, league teams failed to win any championship.

Especially the just-concluded S competition.

The teams that entered the S competition performed atrociously in the games.

It’s not just poor results; it’s purely like amateur teams playing against professional teams.

Plus, some teams also broke out negative scandals outside the games.

This has led to the league’s negative impact surpassing the positive.

According to information the assistant obtained, a few sponsors who were originally sponsoring the league officially are considering withdrawing sponsorship since they feel continuing will yield less than direct advertising.

If the sponsors withdraw, then the dividends from the league that Jidao Club relies on to survive might not sustain club operations.

Given this, it might be better to directly disband the club.

To be honest, Chen Yiyang still has feelings for Jidao Club.

But feelings can’t be turned into food.

He can accept Jidao Club not making money, as long as he does not have to fork out extra money himself.

But considering future prospects, he would have to pay to keep the club alive, meaning he’d have to support the people in the club.

So Chen Yiyang took out his phone and found Zeng Hai’s number and called.

"Mr. Chen!" Seeing it’s Chen Yiyang’s call, Zeng Hai quickly answered.

"Long time no contact, how’s it going?" Chen Yiyang started with casual chat.

"Not too well." Zeng Hai gave a bitter laugh and then spoke straightforwardly, "Mr. Chen, you probably know about the recent negative scandals in the league."

"Yes, I’ve heard about them."

"Are you considering disbanding the club?" Zeng Hai directly voiced Chen Yiyang’s intention.

Chen Yiyang remained silent.

"Mr. Chen, if it wasn’t for your investment back then, the club probably would have disbanded already." Zeng Hai genuinely expressed, "Now the club has won a championship, I know my initial choice wasn’t wrong, standing by the club was meaningful.

Now, with the entire league falling apart, you really don’t need to spend money supporting us. If I’m not working at the club in the future, I can just find a platform to do streaming and support myself, you don’t need to worry."

"I do plan to disband the club. But that doesn’t mean I’m abandoning you all."

Chen Yiyang had already planned the handling after club disbandment.

If you and the others from the club are willing, you can work at my media company mainly to cultivate and discover some gaming streamers in the future."

The media company Chen Yiyang mentioned was actually the previous live-stream selling company, but now, aside from live-stream selling, the company also cultivates and discovers some streamers.

Because their company has additional revenue from live-selling, they can offer contracted streamers higher salaries, providing an advantage when competing with other streamer guilds.

However, previously, the company mainly discovered lifestyle streamers, and hadn’t ventured into the gaming streamers domain.

So Chen Yiyang planned, after disbanding Jidao Club, to let these people from the club handle the gaming streamers domain.

"Mr. Chen, you are genuinely righteous." Zeng Hai didn’t expect Chen Yiyang would let them have jobs after the club disbandment, immediately expressing gratitude.

"No worries, but regarding income, I only cover the basic monthly salary, any additional income depends on your own performance."

After saying this, Chen Yiyang asked Zeng Hai to inform the league officials on behalf of the club.

Next season, Jidao Club will be disbanded. As for the club’s slot, it’s not up for sale, just handed back to the league.

Mainly because now the entire league is already rotten, even if the league slot is sold, it wouldn’t fetch much money.

There are several clubs in the league that have been seeking buyers for several seasons but still haven’t managed to sell their league slots.

So it’s better to return it directly to the league, without any monetary transactions.

After making the call, Chen Yiyang didn’t concern himself with the matter anymore.

However, the next day, Zeng Hai suddenly gave Chen Yiyang a call.

"Mr. Chen, the league officials don’t agree with our withdrawal."

"What’s the deal?" Hearing Zeng Hai’s words, Chen Yiyang was bewildered.

"We disband the club by ourselves and stop participating, do we need their consent?"

"That’s how it is," Zeng Hai said, "The league’s meaning is that our Extreme Path Team is the first championship team, which has extraordinary significance for the entire league. If we exit, the impact on the league would be too great."

"Then just tell them that if they want, they can pay to buy the club’s name and run it themselves." Chen Yiyang said impatiently.

"Alright, I understand."

After Zeng Hai hung up, later in the evening.

Chen Yiyang received a call from Wu Changxun.

"Brother Wu, you aren’t also calling about the Extreme Path Team, are you?" Chen Yiyang instantly guessed the reason for Wu Changxun’s call.

"I’m just handling a request." Wu Changxun said helplessly, "The league says disbanding Jidao Club is your decision.

So they could only find me to call you to discuss this matter."

"What’s there to discuss?" Chen Yiyang said, "There’s always someone willing to do profitable business, but nobody does losing business. Now that the club isn’t profitable, I can’t spend money maintaining a hopeless club in a hopeless league."

Chen Yiyang spoke candidly.

The key is not that the club needs to run at a loss, but that the entire league has no hope.

If it’s a budding league, investing at a loss in the club initially, one could still hope to earn back money later.

But now the entire league is already declining, investing in it is akin to tossing real money into the water.

"How about I compensate you from elsewhere?" Wu Changxun tentatively asked.

"No need," Chen Yiyang already made up his mind.

"Reaching this stage, the league officials established by Tengxu must bear the primary responsibility.

Extreme Path Team wins the championship, and you don’t promote it. Some clubs in the league use contracts to set traps maliciously suing players, making players pay large compensations, and you ignore it.

Domestic e-sports started late, compared to South Korea, aside from players, not a single back-end, coaching team is qualified.

Logically, league officials should help clubs build ecosystems and train professional back-end staff.

But clubs only know to grab money, without doing one practical thing.

Now the entire league’s performance has completely collapsed, does the official still want to wash its hands clean of it?"

Chen Yiyang’s words left Wu Changxun speechless.

"That’s that." Chen Yiyang didn’t want to give face to Wu Changxun anymore.